The oud, the lute, and the guitar all come from same musical family. The oud is the oldest of them all, going back thousands of years. The oud (also called ud) typically has 10-12 strings, is ...

The URI Guitar Festival will include six concerts over its four days, Oct. 20-23, on and around the university's Kingston Campus. For guitar students and aficionados, there will also be numerous ...

At the core of the concert were the 11 strings of Tarik’s oud (the lutelike instrument of the Middle East and North Africa), the six of Julia’s guitar and the four of Charlie Bisharat’s ...

Ati Metwaly , Wednesday 24 Feb 2021 In their upcoming concert, the newly formed trio will feature Ali Omar El-Farouk (oud, guitar, bağlama), Hany Bedair (cajón and frame drum), and Hazem Abdel ...

Gordon Grdina, a guitarist and oud player from Vancouver, British Columbia, will perform in Missoula with a new trio featuring New Yorkers Matt Mitchell (piano) and Jim Black (drums).

John Bilezikjian, a masterful player of the Middle Eastern oud whose eclectic career included performances and recordings with Leonard Cohen, Little Richard, Robert Palmer, Luis Miguel and Placido ...

Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took guitar distortion to new levels and whose version of "Misirlou" became pop-culture shorthand, died on Saturday night.